Friday, October 28, 2005

Imagine there's no country...

... and the Internet is the land of the freeeeeee!

*baisse le volume de la radio*

Internet ouvert à tous, c'est un El Dorado plein de promesse mais c'est dommage que peu sachent l'utiliser de manière adulte, responsable voire intelligente...

Je cite Xeni Jardin de Wired:

Web 2.0 is very open, but all that openness has its downside: When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer.

These days, peed-in beer is everywhere. Blogs begat splogs -- junk diaries filled with keyword-rich text to lure traffic for ad revenue.

Google's PageRank is unfairly skewed by profit-driven search engine optimizers. And experiments in participatory media attract goatses as quickly as they do legitimate entries, like the Los Angeles Times' experimental wiki, which was pulled after it was defaced.

Earlier tech innovations -- Usenet, BBSes, free e-mail systems, even the open-source software movement -- have long faced similar challenges. And many have buckled under the pressure.

Some of the harshest Web 2.0 criticism has been directed at Wikipedia, the celebrated online encyclopedia that invites anyone and everyone to become an editor. Though often good, Wikipedia is of uneven quality and has its share of bogus entries.

*remonte le volume*

Imagine all the people...
... not peeing in the beer! ahaaa ahahaaaaaaaaaa